Without textual descriptions or label information of images, searching semantic concepts in image databases is still a very challenging task. While automatic annotation techniques...
Searching audio data can potentially be facilitated by the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology to generate text transcripts which can then be easily queried. Howe...
Abhishek Ranjan, Ravin Balakrishnan, Mark H. Chign...
Despite recent advances in natural language question answering technology, the problem of designing effective user interfaces has been largely unexplored. We conducted a user stud...
Jimmy J. Lin, Dennis Quan, Vineet Sinha, Karun Bak...
Continuous queries applied over nonterminating data streams usually specify windows in order to obtain an evolving –yet restricted– set of tuples and thus provide timely result...
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...